The career-imploding misadventures of former IMF chief (and presumptive French presidential candidate) Dominique Strauss-Kahn get filtered through the uniquely lurid prism of director Abel Ferrara in Welcome to New York, a bluntly powerful provocation that begins as a kind of tabloid melodrama and gradually evolves into a fraught study of addiction, narcissism and the lava flow of capitalist privilege. Although Ferrara and co-screenwriter Chris Zois have changed the characters names more to protect themselves than anyone's supposed innocence and tacked on a lengthy pre-film disclaimer, Welcome to New York leaves few doubts about what the filmmakers think really happened on the morning of 14 May 2011, when Strauss-Kahn allegedly forced himself sexually on Guinean housekeeper Nafissatou Diallo in Manhattans Sofitel Hotel&.
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